Aladdin's Curse — Marcus Pick

Aladdin's Curse is a masterful and original work on the dark side of human nature. Pick takes us on an incredible journey as the lamp passes through time from the Stone Age to the Ice Age to Egypt to Greece to Rome to China to Japan and then eventually to America. It is in a nutshell a modern take on an old concept, the Djinni (Genie). The Djinni is inherently evil as it fulfills the wishes of those who get possession of his lamp, only the wishes do not always come out exactly as they are planned. Follow the series of subplots and short stories through time as they are all uniquely interconnected by the lamp and the Djinn within. It is filled with tragedy as little but no good comes to those who wish to personally gain from the Djinni's magic. Only three totally unselfish wishes can rid the world of this evil and it takes untold millennia to make it so. As the old saying goes, be careful what you wish for!